Reinout Vreijling, pseudonym of Jacob Gerhard (Jaap) van Rossum du Chattel (Schiedam, 7 January 1926 - Bergen, 25 May 2007) was a Dutch poet.
Queer Places:
Herengracht 401, 1017 BP Amsterdam
Reinout Vreijling, pseudonym of Jacob Gerhard (Jaap) van Rossum du Chattel (Schiedam, 7 January 1926 - Bergen, 25 May 2007) was a Dutch poet.
Vreijling attended the Murmellius Gymnasium in Alkmaar and studied Dutch Law in Leiden. At the end of his studies he fulfilled his military service and became a reserve officer of the Dutch army. After that he joined trading companies for several years.
Manuel Goldschmidt and Peter Goldschmidt, 'half-Jews' according to Nazi laws, were also student from Eerde. They belonged to the Wolfgang Frommel circle. Their non-Jewish mother arranged safe papers. Their non-Jewish appearance made it possible for them to leave Ommen without going into hiding. Manuel lived in a boarding house on the Amsterdam Singel and was a regular visitor to Herengracht 401. So was his brother Peter. Other friends and frequent visitors included Reinout van Rossum du Chattel and, from Bergen, Chris Dekker and Vincent Weyand. When the author Percy Gothein, the former apple of the eye of Stefan George, who served Wolfgang Frommel as master and lover, visited them in November 1943, a special picture of the men from the Frommel circle was taken in the kitchen of Miep and Guido Theunissen. The picture actually shows a sect-leader, Wolfgang Frommel, and his master Gothein, surrounded by disciples. In 1944 Gothein returned for a longer period of time. Because of the culture of silence created by Frommel, Reinout could only write in 1996 that Percy Gothein 'suddenly found himself in a boy's brothel'.
Reinout Vreijling spent the longest time of his life as a civil servant, respectively at the Land Company of the municipality of Arnhem and at the municipality of Utrecht, first at Cultural Affairs, later at Urban Development and Environment. There, voluminous policy papers inspired him to write stories, sketches and translations of prose and poetry. Vreijling possessed an in-depth knowledge of Dutch and European history and literature. This knowledge can be found in his poems, which often have a historical or literary theme. He belonged to the circle of friends[1] around the German humanist and poet Wolfgang Frommel,[2] who emigrated to the Netherlands in 1939. Vreijling was married to watercolourist Keeske Bendien (1929-2014), and father of writer, journalist and radio presenter Marc van Rossum du Chattel and Eveline Haisma-van Rossum du Chattel.
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